Amazingly written real story of big music labels, underground piracy groups and music industry in the last few decades. Long story short - while the sales of physical CDs peaked in the year 2000, by the year 2007 they were down by almost 50%, putting the whole industry in free-fall. The reason? Popular compression method that almost ended up being stillborn (mp3), improvements in connection bandwidth, invention of bit-torrent trackers and one guy from North Carolina who smuggled more than 2000 albums of the CD pressing plant to release them online weeks before their original release date. 5 stars.